PEOPLE will get the chance to see and hear some of the north’s best female brass band players tomorrow.

They will be in St George’s Square playing for 30 minutes from 11am to promote a new Oxfam fundraising scheme.

The aim is to encourage brass band musicians across the UK to get together and raise funds for Oxfam’s work with women around the world.

Slaithwaite Band’s musical director Tabby Clegg, inset, said: “Music is a very powerful way of communicating and changing the world. When I heard of the campaign I thought that women who play brass band instruments would love to support it.”

Oxfam is inviting women – and men – to celebrate International Women’s Day with a fun Get Together with friends which will raise vital money to support women around the world. Anyone can organise their own mini fundraising event at home, at work, with friends and in their community.

The funds raised will go to support mothers in poor countries who are trying to get themselves out of poverty by setting up a co-operative or their own business.